Wood is a great renewable resource, and it's no wonder that most houses are framed with wood. For the past century or more, the typical home is constructed using balloon framing. This type of construction, in which many smaller wall studs replaced fewer and heavier supporting posts at corners and principal junctions, made for easier house framing. The older construction practice required skilled joining, while the balloon houses could just be nailed together.

One other distinguishing characteristics of the material is its ability to be recharged hundreds of times, and each charge only takes a few seconds.[3] A piece of power paper has the highest charge (1 coulomb) and highest capacitance (2 farads) in an organic electronic device.[1,3] The material also has the highest measured current (1 ampere) in an organic conductor, and the highest transconductance (1 siemen) when made into a transistor.[1,3]

The nanocellulose is created using high pressurewater, which breaks cellulose fibers into strands as thin as 20 nanometer in diameter.[3] The PEDOT:PSS conducting polymer is added while the nanocellulose is still in a water solution, and the polymer forms a thin coating around the fibers.[3] Says Linköping University doctoral student, Jesper Edberg, "The covered fibers are in tangles, where the liquid in the spaces between them functions as an electrolyte."[3]